1933-11-27 — Page 9

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27,

1933.

EUROPEAN CYCLIST INJURED

Made Hostage Offer

Mr. B. S. Rogers Crashes On Castle Peak. Road.

ON HIS WAY TO VOLUNTEER CAMP

Swerving to avoid a dog which ran across the road, Mr. B. S. Ro- gera, af Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., lost control of his motor cycle

while on the Castle Peak Rond on Saturday afternoon and was thrown

receiving cuts heavily. abrasion.

and

He was taken to the Hospital where he will be detained

Kowloon

for two or three days His injuries,

it is stated, are not serious.

Mr. Rogers was on his way join the Motor-Cycles Section

to

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the Volunteers Camp, Sun Wal. when the accident becured.

OVERSEAS LEAGUE EMISSARY DUE.

Mr. Lisle Carr To Visit Colony In December.

Mr INTE Carr. Travelling Secretary of The Overseas League. is expected to Visit Hog

shortly.

Kang

Mr. Lisle Cart X13 (79-13411 Ma

Mrs. Charles F. Urschel, wife of the multimillionaire Oklahoma City Vidnap victim, is shown leaving her home after announcing the willing to go personally as a hos- Lage to guaranty payment of ran- Aom kidnavers demanded.

WIL

Eric Riet In this post of ****** THEFTS FROM BANK

emminary

the League

The

latter was well-known locally, not only for his forts its beball of The Oversens League, but also in hist official capnerly ne Secretary to Sir: Reginald Stubbs, formwa Governor' of the Colony.

Mr. Carr tends to visit practi;

cally every important place frost this side of Indis to Japanst He is the here at alouf due to arrive

middle of December The duration

of his stay is not known

BUILDING SITE

Three More Thieves Sentenced.

MAGISTRATE INCREASES

PENALTIES

of theft from the

Three cases Hona hong

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THE CHINA MAIL.

SHORT STORIES AND To-day's Short Story.

SONGS

Irish Sweep Organises Competitions.

ATTRACTIVE PRIZES

The Irish Hospitals' Sweep Trust

THE

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HEART

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By Edgar Allan Poe.

very and so it was impossible to do the

he had

have organised number-of-com- I dreadfully nous 1. had work; for it was not the old man petitions with substantial prizes. been and aml but why will you whe vexed me, but his Evil Eye. For the best short story received say that I am mad? The disease And every morning, when the day by them before January 6, 1984, a had sharpened. my senses-not broke, I went boldly into the cham-

while a destroyed

dulled them.ber, and spoke courageously to him, prize of £100 is offered.

a hearty Amilar prize will be awarded for Above all was the sense of hear-calling him by name in the best song-words, melody anding acute. I heard all things in tone, and inquiring how

I passed the night. So you see he viano accompaniment.

the heaven and in the earth. The story, which should be from heard many things in hell. How, would have been a very profound 10,000 words in length, then, am I mad Hearken! and old man Indeed to suspect that every how night, Just as twelve, I looked in must have the Irish Sweepstake as observe how healthily La principal theme or leading fea- calmly I can tell you the whole upon him while he slept. ture, while the song must be suit-story. able na a

5,000 to

grammes.

Aw

Upon the eighth night I was more

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the signature sang for It is impossible to tell how first than usually cautions in opening the minute-hand watch's Irlah Hospitals' Trust radio pro- the idea entered my brain;

but, door. once conceived, it haunted me day moves more quickly than did mine. Songs and stories which do not and night. Object there was none. Never before that night had I felt I loved the extent of my own powers-of qualify for the £100 prizes stand a Passion there was none. chance of being purchased by the the old man. He had never wrong-my sagacity. I could scarcely con-

He had never given me in-tain my feelings of triumph. promoters of the competition at 10ed me. guinens each.

Butt. Fer his gold I had no desire. think that there I was, opening the Contributions, addressed Song think it was his eye! Yes, it was door, little by little, and he Competition and Short Story Com-this! One of his eyes resembled even to dream of my secret deeds! I fairly chuckled at petition respectively, should be sent that of a vulture-n pale blue øye, or thoughts.

Whenever the idea; and perhaps he heard me, to 13. Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin.

fell upon me my blood ran cold; and for he moved on the bed suddenly, xo by degrees very gradually-Ins if startled. Now you may think! made up my mind to take the life that I drew back-but “THOUGHT IT WOULD of the old man, and thus rid my room was as black as pitch with the

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BE WORTH WHILE."self of the eye for ever,

Now this in the point. You fancy were close fastened, through fear Madmen know nothing. of robbers), and so I knew that hel me mad.

You could not see the opening of the But you should have seen me. should have seen how wisely I pro- door, and i kept pushing ceeded-with what caution-with steadily, steadily. what foresight -with what dissimu- lation I went to work!

Sentence at six months' hard labour was imposed by Mr. Balfour Lat

Magistracy the Central

this morning on Ho Chung-hi. unem-] before killed him. And every

Hong

I was never kinder to the uld man than during the whole week

ployed, for stealing $25 in Kang notes from the pocket of Light, about midnight, I turned the Wo, a cook, at the Western Market latch of his door and opened it

oh, so gently! And then, when I Accused said that he thought it

hud made an opening sufficient for

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Hair." by A. J. Alan.

I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern when my thumb

and Shanghai Bank would be worth while to try com my head, I put in a dark-lantern.slipped upon the tin fastening, and The local Hon. Serreiary of 15 Building site were before Mr. Ba)- Plainants' pockets, as he understood ali closed, closed, so that no light the old man sprang up in bed, cry Oversea Lengue has unlimated that four at the Central Magistracy this he had between $400 and 8500 in hishone out, and then I thrust in my

a reception for Mr. Carr will pro bably take place in the Helena may, Institute.

The date of the function will be announced later, and local members, of whom there are about 400 are! asked to attend with their friends.

NEW AMERICAN CRUISERS.

Tuscaloosa Launched At

Camden.

Camden, New Jersey,

A handsome addition tu the United States Fleet was made on

morning

His Worship said that As these

enses were becoming too frequent

possession

he would increase the severity of POSSESSION OF

The penalties.

Fines of $30, in default Опе month's hard labour, were imposed Mak upon Fung Yee, widow, and

"hun. married woman, for stealing wood from

while the promiseR. Leung Ping, deaf and dumb, was sentenced to one months' hard la-

same place,

OPIUM.

ing out, "Who's there?" head. Oh, you would have laughed I kept quite still and said nothing. to see how cunningly thrust it in For a whole hour I did not move I moved it slowly--very, very RAW Rowly, so that I might not disturb muscle, and in the meantime I did

Returned Banishee Fined And Gaoled.

Hon. unemployed,

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the old man's sleep.

He was not hear him le down. still sitting up in the bed, listening just as I have done, night after: night, hearkening to the death- watches in the wall.

It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening 80 far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Hal-would a mad-

Presently I heard a slight groan, this? man have been so wise, as

of And then, when my head was well and I knew it was the groan

It was not a groan in the room, I undid the lantern mortal terror.

Was

I know the

bour for the theft of tron from the charged on romand before Mr. Fcautiously-oh, so cautiously-cau-of pain or grief-oh, nol--it агівся

W. Hamilton this morning with tiously for the hinges creaked) the low, stified sound that possession of 140 Laels of raw

undid it just so much that a single from the bottom of the soul when Accused was arrested in thin ray fell upon the vulture eye-sound well. Many a night, just at

overcharged with awe. opium. ENGLISHWOMEN-BY Connaught Road West on Friday And this I did for seven long nights midnight, when all the world slept.

last. when the upium was found CLARA BOW.

-every night just at midnight- strapped to his body.

but I found the eye always closed; bosom, deepening, with its dreadful

November 15 with the launching Huge Feet And Hands

here of the new 10,000-Lon cruiser Tuscaloosa, the fifteenth vessel bail! under the Washington and London Naval Treaties.

At the same time, the keel of a new heavy cruiser, to be named Quincy, was laid at Quincy, Mass.

ROOSEVELT MAY SEE FORD.

Motor Magnate Still Defics N.R.A.

to

Warm Spring, G.A. It WAR indicated to-day that Henry Ford may come Warm Springs for a conference with Pre- sident Franklin D. Roosevelt to dis- cuss his differences with the N.R.A. It was understood that Mr. Rooso. velt invited Mr. Ford, believing that Ford's adherence to the N.R.A. programme would have an impor tant effect on certain recalcitrant branches of industry.

Mr. Ford thus far hus not signed the automobile Industry's code.

NEW PLANE TYRES DESIGNED.

Low Pressure On Chassis And Tail Of Machine.

Moscow.

The scientific research instituta of the rubber industry has design- ed a new kind of pneumatic tyres) for aeroplanes, which effect an ex- tremely low pressure on channis and tail part of the "plane.--

The new tyre will enable sero- planes to land at places not speci- lly adapted for landing purposes. -Reuter

U. S. ENVOY RETURNING

Washington. Mr. Robert Worth Bingham, U.S.

· Ambassador in London, will spend Christmas In Washington, and will discuss the European situation, Reuter,

And Weird Clothes.

After being sentenced to a fine of $4,000. In default 12 months' hard labour, for this offence he was further charged with returning New York.

from banishment. Found guilty. Following her recent European

he was sentenced to six months im visit, Miss Clare Bow, the original prisonment, the sentences to rub "1" girl of the films, has published

roncurrently.

her impressions of English people.

First our women

COURT-MARTIAL AT SHAMSHUIPO.

it has welled up from my own

echo, the terrora that distracted mc. I say I knew it wall. I knew what the old man felt, ana pitied kim, although I chuckled at heart. (Continued from Page 1).

I knew that he had been lying Lieutenant F. W. Young, Adjust-awake ever since the first slight| ant to the Lincolnshire Regiment, noise, when he had turned is the appeared for the prosecution, while bed. His feara had been ever since 2nd Lieutenant W. J. R. Cragg de-growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but Mr. Frank Smith, who resterday fended the accused.

The accused, it was stated, could not. He had been saying to outside St. John's collapsed

while waiting Cathedral

for the absented

himself from parade himself, "It is nothing but the wind morning service and who was taken without leave and when later ques-in the chimney-it is only a mouse Civil Hospital tioned by Company Sergeant Major crossing the floor," or "it is merely an unconscious condition, J. Booth, is alleged to have used a cricket which has made a single ed. They certainly have cluss. as this morning discharged from threatening language to the latter chirp." Reuter

"Huge feet and great hands that are not properly cared for--and the weirdest clathes I have ever seen!"

And now, the Englishmen :

"Nearly all the men one meets in to the Government London are elegant und well dress-in

hospital.

and to have struck him.

Cuban Prison Census After Visiting Period

Cuban soldiers count the prisoners fti the Cabanas navy odours exptured after the repent battle of the Fortress at the conclusion of the first visiting period National Hotel in Hayanas Relatives of the prisoners permitted. The prisoners are the former army, and are shown in right background diærjar offelii

Yes, he had been trying

to comfort himself with these sup- positions; but he had found all in vatn. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused himi to feel-although he neither saw. gor board to feel the presence of my head within the room.

When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him ile down, I resolved to open a little -A very, very little crevice in the Lantern. So I opened it-you can- not imagine how stealthily, steathily until at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and full upon the vulture eye.

It was open-wide, wide open and I grew furious as I grazed upón It. I saw it with perfect distinct ness-all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chiled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person; for I had directed the ray, as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for. madness is but over-acuteness of the senkes? now, I say, there came to mY GATS {a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cot- ton. I knew that sound wall, too. It was the beating of the old man's | beart. It Inwased my fury, as the beating of a drum, stimulates the soldier Into courage; E

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